Voting is underway on a shortlist of 30 SMEs to decide on the companies who will share in the 2016 OPTIMISE Fund run by the IE Domain Registry (IEDR). It’s now over to the public to choose 10 winners from the 30-strong shortlist, with the remaining five winners selected by an independent expert panel. Voting opened on Friday […]
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.EUS Domain Names are About Basque Identity [Video]
.EUS is the Top-Level Domain for the Basque community (Euskara): a nation with its own language and culture, originating in a region of Northern Spain and Southern France. Launched in 2014, .EUS will celebrate its first anniversary next month. We met the CEO of the puntuEUS registry, Josu Waliño, at ICANN 54 in Dublin. He told us all about their […]
.CLOUD Top Level Domain Launches Pioneer Programme [Audio]
Francesco Cetraro is our guest on today’s podcast. He’s Head of Registry Operations for the new .CLOUD Top Level Domain. Click on the player above to listen to the show, or download it here: 15:50; 9MB; MP3. ‘Cloud’ is a buzz-word of our time – and with good reason. The Network is the Computer has long been […]
Podcast: “Waving a Massive Red Flag” [Audio]
Blacknight CEO Michele Neylon joins me for a chat on this week’s podcast. Click on the player above to listen to the show, or download it here: 31:48; 18MB; MP3. Michele thinks Ashley Madison, the cheaters website whose entire user database has been compromised, was asking for trouble. By that, he doesn’t mean that they’ve been smitten for their […]
Expanded Domain Space is “The New Normal” – Jothan Frakes of DomainFest [Audio]
Technology.ie has got twenty tickets to give away to DomainFest Bulgaria next week. It’s just one of the events which form part of Bulgarian Internet Week, in a country which ranks second in the world for Internet use (average: 16 hours per person per week). DomainFest Bulgaria is brought to you by the people behind NamesCon– the […]
Dot-Irish Land Rush Begins
The launch of the new .IRISH top-level domain enters its Land Rush phase today. If you’ve got an idea which needs that special .IRISH domain name, now’s your chance to get it before someone else does. Landrush is open now to register domain names for €99.95. The price goes down to €34.95 when General Availability launches on June […]
Podcast: Kevin Kopas of Radix Registry on Marketing New gTLDs [Audio]
The arrival of new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs)is transforming the domains industry, and helping to build a new online world. But with 1200 new domain registries launching over a couple of years, how do you convince users to choose yours? As the choice explodes, how do you go about marketing your gTLD, and how will it all shake out in […]
Blacknight SME Awards: One Man and His Van [Video]
Fintan and Wendy Conlan love running their family business, ‘One Man and his Van‘. Sure, it’s hard work and stressful but “ultimately worth it”. “I would do nothing else but run my own business, because the rewards far outweigh the headaches.” ‘One Man and his Van’ won the Family Business category at the Blacknight SME […]
Great Value on .Science Domain Names Launching Today!
Starting today at 3pm you can register a domain name in the brand new .Science domain, and to celebrate, Blacknight is offering .science domain names for the ridiculous price of €2.55! Why .Science? Well as the new registry’s CMO Andy Churley explains, we’re nearly all scientists, when you think about it! [youtube]http://youtu.be/3CbUzSLZLBI[/youtube] There are lots […]
Las Vegas Domain Auctions and Ennis Mart [Audio]
Today’s podcast was recorded in the office of CEO Michele Neylon at Blacknight HQ. He’s just returned from two weeks in Las Vegas where he attended CES, followed by Namescon. Click on the player above to listen to the show, or download it here: 23:31; 13MB; MP3. CES was simply huge, says Michele. One thing that caught […]